A Nation Divided Against Itself

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NYC slouches towards Armageddon

Greenwich real estate agents (should) celebrate, for now, but the Red States beckon. It’s only worth staying in proximity to NYC for so long as there’s something to stick around for

Matt Vespa, PJMedia on the new face of the Democrat party:

They were expected to have a great night, and they did. The candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani all won. The socialists swept the race. While the national Democrats are Trump-deranged and focused on stopping the MAGA agenda, they have a serial killer hiding within their walls—and it’s wearing a Che Guevara shirt, with a copy of Das Kapital in its back pocket. And while this political killer is no fan of Trump, they want to take out the establishment Democrats first. This party got a reality check tonight: they might have to spend heavily to keep these people out, because the candidates that are winning these primaries are whack job city.

Good news, at least temporarily, for Greenwich real estate sales, because our Hartford Loonies seem content with running the state on a Mandamni Lite agenda, so we’ll continue to look relatively attractive to those NYC refugees who, for now, can’t flee farther away from the coming apocalypse. But down the road? These seems a good time to refer to an article posted yesterday by PowerLine’s John Hinderaker. My only quibble? He refers to “socialism”, and while that may be what the proletariat thinks it’s voting for, these DSA candidates, Platner in Maine, NYC’s new governing body, call for the abolishment of private property, confiscation of “the means of production”, and “workers rule”; that’s what’s coming, and that will be the end.

Our Socialist Fellow-Citizens

The gulf between Republicans/conservatives and Democrats/socialists has grown to the point where it may be unbridgeable. Check out these recent poll data from CNN. Democrats are now firmly in the socialist camp:

How do two parties jointly govern a republic when one of them wants to establish a completely different economic system–a system which is not only intrinsically evil, but which always leads to tyranny? We once were able to compromise our differing views of what would be optimal marginal tax rates. But how do you compromise our insistence on freedom with their yearning for socialist servitude?

The only parallel that our country’s history offers is the conflict over slavery that resulted in the Civil War. Arguably that conflict was more amenable to peaceful political resolution than the one we face now, since we theoretically could have continued for a long time as a nation composed of some free states and some slave states. That is, in fact, what happened for around 70 years. But in today’s world, there isn’t any way to have an economy and a legal system that are half free and half socialist.

There is one obvious positive resolution of the current crisis–a thorough repudiation of the Democratic Party at the polls. But that doesn’t seem to be happening. The Democrats have generally done well in elections in 2025 and 2026, and they probably will do well again in the midterms. What, then, will deter them from continuing down the socialist path? A brutal drubbing in 2028. But at present, there is no reason to expect that result.

So before long, we may have to confront the question whether a nation can long endure, half socialist and half free.